- Apr 9, 2017
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Hello community,
recently I've been monitoring the temps for my CPU and GPU, since that's always a good idea after overclocking. Doing that, I have seen some small, but to me illogical differences of temps while testing with Prime95 vs. playing CPU intensive games.
First of all, let me list you my rig:
Tower: A PGS Aerocool, don't really know the exact name of it. It's quite big and airy.
Mainboard: MSI Z170A PRO, Intel Z170 So.1151 (Dual Channel DDR4)
Harddrives: A 500 GB Crucial SSD for games, 1,5 TB basic harddrive.
CPU: Intel Core i5 6600k @ 4,5 GHz OC
GPU: Inno3D GTX 1070 iChill x3 @ 2,0 GHz OC (8 GB VRAM)
CPU Fan: EKL Alpfenföhn Matterhorn White Edition (Great cooler!)
RAM: 1 x 8 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 @ 2400 MHz (planning to get a 2nd one)
Additional Fans: I have 1 fan on the bottom, blowing some air directly onto my GPU and one behind the CPU fan, blowing hot air outside.
Here's a screen of my CPU-Z:
My Vcore in BIOS for overclocking to 4,5 GHz (stable) is 1.340, the highest number I've seen in CPU-Z was 1.336. Intel C-State for power saving is set to AUTO, but the multiplier is dynamic anyways.
Now to my problem/question: I have done a 3 hour stress-test on prime, on which my average temperature for CPU was 59,95 °C. Since the cores all have different temps, I believe the lowest one was at a max of 54 °C and the highest one at about 64 °C.
Those temps are nothing to be worried about, I guess.
But! if I play for example GTA V, my max temp will be about 73 °C at a switching 80-100% CPU load. How is this possible? Shouldn't Prime95 be the absolute CPU stress test showing the highest temps to be reached? All the testing was done on "Small FFTs" mode and the temps were stable at all times.
I hope anyone of you can clear this up, since it doesn't make sense to me. May it be the ambient temperature of my tower, because the GPU gets heated up aswell? The maximum my GPU reaches, would be 60-63 °C on 100% load.
I'm looking forward to your answers. Thanks!
Greetings, Nitrobit45
recently I've been monitoring the temps for my CPU and GPU, since that's always a good idea after overclocking. Doing that, I have seen some small, but to me illogical differences of temps while testing with Prime95 vs. playing CPU intensive games.
First of all, let me list you my rig:
Tower: A PGS Aerocool, don't really know the exact name of it. It's quite big and airy.
Mainboard: MSI Z170A PRO, Intel Z170 So.1151 (Dual Channel DDR4)
Harddrives: A 500 GB Crucial SSD for games, 1,5 TB basic harddrive.
CPU: Intel Core i5 6600k @ 4,5 GHz OC
GPU: Inno3D GTX 1070 iChill x3 @ 2,0 GHz OC (8 GB VRAM)
CPU Fan: EKL Alpfenföhn Matterhorn White Edition (Great cooler!)
RAM: 1 x 8 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 @ 2400 MHz (planning to get a 2nd one)
Additional Fans: I have 1 fan on the bottom, blowing some air directly onto my GPU and one behind the CPU fan, blowing hot air outside.
Here's a screen of my CPU-Z:
My Vcore in BIOS for overclocking to 4,5 GHz (stable) is 1.340, the highest number I've seen in CPU-Z was 1.336. Intel C-State for power saving is set to AUTO, but the multiplier is dynamic anyways.
Now to my problem/question: I have done a 3 hour stress-test on prime, on which my average temperature for CPU was 59,95 °C. Since the cores all have different temps, I believe the lowest one was at a max of 54 °C and the highest one at about 64 °C.
Those temps are nothing to be worried about, I guess.
But! if I play for example GTA V, my max temp will be about 73 °C at a switching 80-100% CPU load. How is this possible? Shouldn't Prime95 be the absolute CPU stress test showing the highest temps to be reached? All the testing was done on "Small FFTs" mode and the temps were stable at all times.
I hope anyone of you can clear this up, since it doesn't make sense to me. May it be the ambient temperature of my tower, because the GPU gets heated up aswell? The maximum my GPU reaches, would be 60-63 °C on 100% load.
I'm looking forward to your answers. Thanks!
Greetings, Nitrobit45
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